nginx-0.7.9

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 03:35:40PM -0700, mike wrote:

>On 8/12/08, Maxim Dounin <mdounin at mdounin.ru> wrote:

[...]

>> - Optimization is good, but only if doesn't change expected behaviour.
>
>How is this an optimization? If the first test fails, then check
>directory listing? Isn't it faster to take an enumerated list of
>parameters and check those first? You can test for a specific file, as
>opposed to opening a directory handle to check the listing or
>whatever.

It doesn't "check the listing".  It only checks existence of 
directory.  This saves some syscalls if directory doesn't exists 
and more than two index files configured.

Maxim Dounin